More positivity needed in news

As I watch the evening news on TV, I often wonder why the producers don’t intersperse the depressing stories with ones uplifting and full of hope. For example, after showing an ISIS terrorist cutting off an infidel’s head, they could show a re-run of Iraqis pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein. Or even more inspiring would be a picture of Iraqis coming out of an election booth, holding up an ink-colored finger after voting in their first-ever “free” election. That could be followed by President Bush, with tears running down his cheeks, telling us how touched he was by the Iraqis embracing democracy.
One might think that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Georg Tenet, Scoter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz and many others who orchestrated the invasion of Iraq in 2003 would have moved to Ramadi, Iraq after their success. Can’t you just see all of them in one of their backyards having a picnic and serving shish kabobs? They are responsible for creating this paradise we now have in the Middle East. They ought to be living in it and if it were within my power, that’s exactly where all of them would be. — Wayne Cogswell, Arendtsville